Peristernia

Peristernia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Peristerniinae of the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Peristernia

Richard Parker · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeristerniinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 52 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences85.7 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Peristernia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

52 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

18 formations

Yorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.98°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ESampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°ENancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EPalau Limestone — 7.37°N, 134.58°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°ECayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°E

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The named rock units Peristernia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peristernia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Peristernia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Peristernia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

26 references

Each of the 52 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 14 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Peristernia

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPeristerniinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1852)